A group critique with Magnum photographers David Hurn, Thomas Dworzak and Newsha Tavakolian.

Following the seminar ‘Magnum Photos at 70: Past-Present-Future’ on November 24th, organized by Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation and hosted by Leica Camera Frankfurt, this workshop combines lectures by the three photographers with group critique.

Each Participant will first be introduced to the work of each photographer in the morning session 10h-13h. In the afternoon, each photographer will take on a group of 10 to 15 students for a group critique session of 3 hours, 14h-17h.

A self-taught photographer, Newsha began working professionally in the Iranian press at age of 16, at women's daily newspaper 'Zan'. At the age of 18, she was the youngest photographer to cover the 1999 student uprising, which was a turning point for the country's blossoming reformist movement and for Newsha personally as a photojournalist; a year later she joined New York based agency Polaris Images. In 2014 Newsha was chosen as the fifth laureate of the Carmignac Gestion Photojournalism Award. In 2015 she was chosen as the principle laureate of the Prince Claus Award. Newsha became a Magnum nominee in 2015.

David Hurn

Born in the UK but of Welsh descent, David Hurn (b. 1934) is a self-taught photographer who began his career in 1955 as an assistant at the Reflex Agency. While working as a freelance photographer, he gained his early reputation with his reportage of the 1956 Hungarian revolution. Eventually he turned away from covering current affairs, he set up the famous School of Documentary Photography in Newport, Wales in 1973, but resigned in 1989. He collaborated on the successful textbook, On Being a Photographer (1997), with Professor Bill Jay. His book, Wales: Land of My Father (2000), truly reflects Hurn's style and attempts to discover what is meant by the phrase 'my culture'.

Thomas Dworzak

Thomas Dworzak (b. 1972) is from Kötzting, Germany, but grew up in the small town of Cham in the Bavarian Forest. While living in Avila, Prague, and Moscow, he studied Spanish, Czech, and Russian. From 1993-1998, he lived in Tbilisi, Georgia documenting the conflicts in Chechnya, Karabakh, and Abkhazia, as well as, working on a larger-scale project about the Caucasus region and its people, published as the book Kavkaz (2011). His additional books include Taliban (2003) and M*A*S*H* IRAQ (2007). The assignments in Iran led to the project "Valiasr Avenue" about Tehran's longest street, still in progress. Dworzak returned to Georgia to contribute to the Magnum Group project, Georgian Spring (2009).

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